Deficit on Townhall

• Three-Month Debt Ceiling Deal "A Mandate," Explains Scalise Thu Jan 24
  Washington, D.C.
  Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., explains why the three-month deal passed Wednesday isn't a "band-aid," but a mandate for Congress to find long-term solutions. ... more
• Study: "Debt Problem Began Four Decades Ago" Mon Jan 21
  Kevin Glass
• Once a Critic of Deficits, Obama Now Goes for Broke Mon Jan 21
  Byron York
  "You don't have to be a deficit hawk to be disturbed by the growing gap between revenues and expenses," said Sen. Barack Obama during a Nov. 3, 2005, debate on the Senate floor. ... more
• Obama: We must reduce health costs, deficit Mon Jan 21
  AP News
• President Obama's Deficit Problem Sun Jan 20
  Kevin Glass
• Republicans Plan Vote on Clean Debt Ceiling Hike Sat Jan 19
  Kevin Glass
• To Coin a Solution Mon Jan 14
  9 to 5
  Enter the $1 trillion coin. ... more
• Rick Santelli: We’re Only Smashing a Deficit “Pea” Wed Jan 2
  America
  Even the pea is a little bit too big, he says. “We’ve done all this to arrive at an arrangement on taxes.” ... more
• 2013 Deficit Spending Nearly $5 Billion Per Day Sun Dec 9
  Bob Beauprez
  With the economy barely expanding, the federal government is spending 4 percent more than the FY 2012 level. ... more
• November tax receipts grow, deficit higher: CBO Fri Dec 7
  Reuters News
• Time to Stop the Debt Charade Fri Dec 7
  Star Parker
  The crisis du jour in Washington now dominating the news, the so-called “fiscal cliff”, is but the latest in seemingly endless political crises that we shouldn’t be having. ... more
• Future Generations Wed Dec 5
  Walter E. Williams
  Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow's Americans don't vote, we can dump on them with impunity. That's a vision that describes the actual behavior of today's Americans. It would be seen as selfish, callous and ruthless only if it were actually articulated. Let's look at it. ... more
• Liberal think tank offers deficit plan, pushes Obama on taxes Tue Dec 4
  Reuters News
• Serb parliament adopts 2013 budget, sees deficit at 3.3 percent Sat Dec 1
  Reuters News
• Serb parliament adopts 2013 budget, sees deficit at 3.3 percent Sat Dec 1
  Reuters News
• Brain-lock Inside The Beltway Fri Nov 30
  Jonah Goldberg
  It's at times like this I'm ashamed to admit I live inside the Beltway. ... more
• Pushing Conservatives Off the Fiscal Cliff Wed Nov 28
  Brent Bozell
  The conventional wisdom has emerged that in order to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," politicians in Washington must agree to some method of tax increases ("revenue") -- which will be real, even if low taxes are not the cause of our ills -- alongside some kind of promise of spending restraint on entitlement programs, which is our problem, and which no one believes Washington will restrain. ... more
• “The Unanswered Question”—On Taxes and Spending Tue Nov 27
  Michael Medved
• Obama Set to Discover Inheriting Your Own Mess Is Hard Fri Nov 23
  Elisabeth Meinecke
• Japan logs 4th straight trade deficit in October Wed Nov 21
  AP News
• Senator Warner says deficit talks to be different this time Tue Nov 20
  Reuters News
• Business Executives at White House: Save Us! Raise Their Taxes! Fri Nov 16
  John Ransom
  All of us hayseeds have thought all long that raising taxes right now, while the world teeters on the brink of a global depression, might be a really bad idea. But it turns out that we were wrong says a coalition of government economists, politicians, liberal media-types, union bosses and elite business executives who get to shelter their earnings from tax increases. ... more
• Prepare for Fiscal Doom Thu Nov 15
  John Ransom
  China- still a communist country- has vaulted over Japan as the Asian economic power that matters most. And there is only one explanation for a communist, semi-medieval country like China to overtake a supposedly free and prosperous Japan: There are more Ivy League-educated, modern, Keynesian economists in charge of Japan, than in China. ... more
• The Election ... The Election of 2014 Thu Nov 8
  Emmett Tyrrell
  Jimmy Carter is redeemed! The grinning dunce of yesteryear, who grew into the anile doddering figure of today, lecturing the civilized on all manner of statecraft, has been replaced by the saturnine gaunt prophet, Barack Obama. His sorry performance these past four years he lays to the administration of George W. Bush. The next four years will be a replay of the last four years, and an even graver crisis will confront us then with the domestic economy in a funk and foreign potentates all laughing at us. ... more
• Obama's Failure to Meet the Central Challenges of his Presidency Sun Nov 4
  Randall DeSoto
  The American people judge their Presidents by whether they succeed in meeting the central challenges of their Presidency. This is the case with Barack Obama. ... more
• Falling off the Fiscal Cliff Tue Oct 30
  Armstrong Williams
  On January 1, 2013, the largest tax increase in American history is scheduled to occur. It includes increased income taxes, estate taxes, Obamacare taxes, Medicare taxes and social security taxes. In addition, $1.2 trillion of Federal government spending cuts are mandated over ten years. That means $120 billion in spending cuts are scheduled for 2013. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, if the US does not repeal these taxes and spending cuts, the country will fall off the"fiscal cliff." Falling off the fiscal cliff will result in a recession starting in 2013 with unemployment in the 9.1% range and as much as 2.9% contraction of economic growth in the first half of 2013. ... more

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